Details
Title [Construction crew in a fenced ditch below street level, July 12, 1904] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1904
Date [July 12, 1904]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 19 x 24 cm (7.25 x 9.25 in.)
Description Scene depicting a predominately African American construction crew, working with shovels and picks around a fire hydrant, exposed pipes, and a storm drain within a large fenced off ditch. Planks and sheet metal cover part of the site. Workers place dirt into steel bins. A crane hovers above. Spectators, including white men and boys and African American man, line the fence and pass the construction site. Further down the street another predominately African American construction crew works within another ditch.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Purchase 1989.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African American construction workers.
Boys -- United States.
Construction -- United States.
Construction workers -- United States.
Spectators -- United States.
African American laborers -- United States.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.423]
Accession number P.9260.423